Chapter 1177: The Bizarre Ore Vein (Third Update)
Qin Mu’s seal was so incredibly subtle that it was impossible to notice without careful inspection.
Qin Mu laughed and said, “My strength is inferior to that of the Eight Heavenly Venerables, but my divine techniques are not necessarily inferior to theirs. Although this seal appears small on the outside, it actually contains a vast inner world within.”
He urged the swift boat forward toward the seal. Everyone on board was somewhat tense. The seals of the Eight Heavenly Venerables were extremely terrifying. If they were to accidentally touch one, the unleashed power would surely leave them all dead without a burial place.
However, as the swift boat approached the seal at the Heavenly Rift, they saw the seals of the Eight Heavenly Venerables around them gradually shrink, while the seal left by Qin Mu grew larger and larger.
This shift in size left everyone utterly bewildered.
The swift boat sailed into Qin Mu’s seal, revealing a passage that led directly into the Ancestral Court. Looking outward from the passage, they could clearly see the seals of the Eight Heavenly Venerables.
Outside the passage were streaks and streams of Daoist radiance—the extraordinary phenomena formed by the seals of the Eight Heavenly Venerables. Standing within the passage and looking out, one could appreciate the beauty of the divine techniques of the eight venerables.
Although the swift boat was not large, everyone on board were elites of the Eternal Peace civilization. They quickly took out paper, brushes, and computational divine artifacts, immersing themselves in deducing the mysteries hidden within the divine techniques of the eight venerables.
Some younger ones sought advice from the Blind Man, who patiently guided them.
Seeing this, Qin Mu slowed the boat down, giving them enough time to study the divine techniques of the Eight Heavenly Venerables.
By the time the swift boat sailed out of the Heavenly Rift, more than ten days had passed, and the warships of the Heavenly Court had still not arrived.
Qin Mu steered the swift boat toward the direction of the Great Black Wood, his expression grave as he earnestly instructed, “The Ancestral Court is extremely dangerous, filled with Void Beasts everywhere. These Void Beasts can turn their bodies into void or materialize from void into reality. They are elusive and can emerge from anywhere. Everyone must be extremely cautious! If you need to go out, you must go with Shujun.”
Shujun laughed and said, “The divine ability practitioners and gods and demons of the Eternal Peace have all cultivated the soul-consciousness techniques of the Creators, so there’s no need to panic when encountering Void Beasts. Although your soul-consciousness isn’t strong, if several of you join forces, you can scare them off.”
Everyone acknowledged this.
Although the swift boat was not slow, it was still far too slow compared to the boundless expanse of the Ancestral Court. The boat had been traveling through the air for over ten days and still had not reached the Great Black Wood.
Qin Mu deliberately slowed the pace to give them enough time to observe the geography of the Ancestral Court.
To Qin Mu, whether the Great Black Wood could be defended was irrelevant; these people were the most precious treasures. If the Great Black Wood fell, their familiarity with the terrain would at least help them escape.
“My Great Black Wood is the foremost of all precious lands. When the Eight Heavenly Venerables saw my territory, each of them had a strange look in their eyes—most likely driven by greed.”
Qin Mu thought to himself, “Those two ancient gods in the Taiji Ore Vein have been really good to me!”
Halfway through the journey, the ten great warships of the Heavenly Court finally arrived belatedly.
However, the commotion caused by these ten warships was astonishing. They sailed directly through the seals of the Eight Heavenly Venerables and descended into the skies above the Ancestral Court. The divine and demonic soldiers on the ships simultaneously activated various divine artifacts. Layers of runic shields lit up around the great warships, dazzling and magnificent, rendering the ten ships virtually impregnable.
Moreover, Emperor Throne-level experts sat firmly on the warships, unleashing imperial might to intimidate the Void Beasts.
Strangely enough, however, the Void Beasts in the Void Realm seemed to have vanished into thin air, disappearing without a trace. Despite such a massive disturbance, not a single Void Beast appeared.
This was impossible.
Void Beasts were known to rush directly at any living creature they saw and devour them without hesitation. When there was nothing to eat, they would even gnaw away at grass and trees!
When starving, they would even fly into the sky to eat the sun and the moon.
But now, the Void Beasts remained completely still. Even Qin Mu and his group, who had been there the longest, had not encountered any Void Beast attacks, making the Ancestral Court feel eerily strange.
“The Void Mother Beast has given birth.”
On the swift boat, Qin Mu’s expression turned grave as he scanned the sky, his gaze penetrating layer after layer of void.
His eyes could not see through the void as well as soul-consciousness could reach deep into it, so he did not spot any traces of the Void Beasts.
A few more days passed, and the swift boat finally arrived at the Great Black Wood.
Everyone on board stared at the Ten Thousand Great Black Mountains, their expressions frozen in shock. This place was too vast and expansive—far more immense than the Great Ruins of old!
To mine divine ores here would take an unknown amount of time.
What amazed them even more was the extraordinary treasure, the Glazed Azure Heavenly Canopy, which formed twenty-eight layers of heavens, like multiple worlds encircling the area, guarding this precious land.
Such a feat was truly astonishing!
Only Shujun, the Divine King, looked at the Ten Thousand Great Black Mountains, his face drastically changing. He seemed to want to say something but held back.
The swift boat sailed into the twenty-eight layers of heavens. The Mute quickly called for Qin Mu to stop the boat.
He leaped down from the boat and hurried to the foot of the outer Black Mountain of the Great Black Wood. He sifted through the soil and dug out a stone.
Qin Mu lowered the swift boat to the ground. Everyone disembarked and looked over. They saw that the stone in the Mute’s hand was an ordinary, unremarkable rock, smooth and flat, as if it had been washed and polished by a river for countless years.
The Mute opened his box and reached inside, pulling out a large hammer.
Everyone peered into the box, but all they saw were some silver pellets—nothing else.
Qin Mu smiled faintly. He too had once been as curious as these young people about what was inside the box, and the Mute often performed such tricks for him.
The Mute raised the hammer, intending to smash the rock, but suddenly stopped. His expression turned serious as he asked, “Mu’er, how sturdy are these twenty-eight layers of heavens of yours?”
Qin Mu replied, “They’re decent. They can withstand attacks from Jade Capital Lingxiao-level experts and won’t be broken through in a short time.”
The Mute breathed a sigh of relief, raised the hammer, and slammed it heavily onto the rock. His voice was deep as he said, “Good! If whatever’s inside this stone gets out, catching it will be no easy task!”
*Clang!*
A thunderous sound rang out, shaking everyone’s ears until they buzzed. For a long while, they couldn’t hear what anyone else was saying.
They saw the Mute’s hammer fall, and the rock split open. From within the cracked stone, something flew out, its body shimmering with flowing light. It darted away instantly, crashing with a *clang* against the world barrier of the outer layer of the Glazed Azure Heavenly Canopy, only to be bounced back.
That object moved at incredible speed. After failing to break through on its first impact, it veered in another direction. In the span of a few short breaths, it had traveled hundreds of miles, repeatedly slamming into the world barrier of the Glazed Azure Heavenly Canopy, only to be rebounded each time.
Everyone focused their eyes and saw that it was a flying sword, as clear as water under moonlight.
The sword itself radiated a divine light like the pure flow of moonlight, riding the light as it fled!
Qin Mu looked down at the broken rock. Inside, there was an empty cavity, its walls lined with the residue of divine metal. Clearly, this sword had been nurtured and born from the divine metal within the rock, absorbing all of it until it was trapped inside, unable to escape.
A naturally born divine weapon—this was the first time Qin Mu had ever seen such a thing!
Jiang Yunjian and the others leaped into the air, chasing after the streak of flowing light that was the flying sword, hoping to subdue it. But before they could even get close, a dazzling sword light stretching dozens of miles swept toward them, its power terrifying!
The divine sword was sentient, seemingly possessing its own consciousness. It refused to fall into anyone’s hands and intended to kill them all!
Qin Mu was about to step in to help, but the Blind Man laughed and said, “Let them handle it. You’re not a brooding hen—you can’t protect them forever.”
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